Take action on climate in Colorado!
Stop by here anytime for a list of upcoming, key action opportunities, including tabling, growing the climate movement, public comment opportunities, testifying at hearings, and leadership roles.
*Please visit our online calendar for details on all of our events this month, including monthly committee meetings, local team meetings, and additional events hosted by 350 Colorado.
–> In-Person Opportunities
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- Please mark your calendar and RSVP to attend an upcoming “Here & Now Tour: Building Local Resilience to Climate Disaster$” event near you! Colorado is already facing worsening wildfires, floods, drought, and rising costs. A 2026 study by the Colorado Fiscal Institute shows that preparing for and responding to climate damages will cost Coloradans $1.5B on average per year moving forward through 2050. Taxpayers are footing the bill, but we can change that by making major polluters pay their fair share with policy solutions like a Climate Superfund, which we’ll share more about at these events. We want to hear your ideas about local community climate adaptation and resilience needs, so please join in and invite friends!Dates and Locations:Want to host your own Tour event in another location? Here’s an organizing toolkit for local leaders to use to organize the events.Here & Now Tour dates, locations and RSVP links:
- Durango (July 18,9-10:30am, Durango Public Library) RSVP Here!
- Aurora (August 1st, 3:30pm, Aurora Central Library) RSVP Here!
These successful tour events have already taken place:
- Boulder County (May 26th, 6-7:30pm, at Unity of Boulder) See photos/videos here!
- Denver Metro (June 4th, 6pm, at the Alliance Center) See photos here!
- Fort Collins (June 16th, 6pm, Council Tree Library, Fort Collins)
- Colorado Springs (June 17th, 5:30pm, All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church, Colorado Springs)
- Roaring Fork (June 18, 6pm, Buttermilk Mountain Lodge, 38700 Highway 82, Aspen, CO 81611) See photos/videos here!
- Grand Junction (July 8, 5:30pm, Mesa County Central Library (Monument Room), Grand Junction)
- Grow the number of activists involved in the movement – table with us! No experience necessary, we have materials and things to help people feel confident and prepared in the role. Join our Outreach and Tabling Crew to help at upcoming events! Fill out this form if you would like to volunteer to join our Tabling Crew to help with outreach tabling at upcoming events and/or sign up for a specific event on this tabling spreadsheet. Email volunteer@350colorado.org if you have questions.
- Help make local team meetings and events fun and impactful – plan with us! We’re looking for a few people that can take different pieces of the planning and outreach, like finding venues, helping with social media posting, tabling locally, and more! Please visit our online calendar for details on our local team meetings and events.
- Please mark your calendar and RSVP to attend an upcoming “Here & Now Tour: Building Local Resilience to Climate Disaster$” event near you! Colorado is already facing worsening wildfires, floods, drought, and rising costs. A 2026 study by the Colorado Fiscal Institute shows that preparing for and responding to climate damages will cost Coloradans $1.5B on average per year moving forward through 2050. Taxpayers are footing the bill, but we can change that by making major polluters pay their fair share with policy solutions like a Climate Superfund, which we’ll share more about at these events. We want to hear your ideas about local community climate adaptation and resilience needs, so please join in and invite friends!Dates and Locations:Want to host your own Tour event in another location? Here’s an organizing toolkit for local leaders to use to organize the events.Here & Now Tour dates, locations and RSVP links:
–> Upcoming Hearings & Public Comment Opportunities
- Give comment in writing to the Public Utilities Commission on Xcel’s proposed electric rate hikes. Xcel wants to charge its electric and gas customers almost half a billion dollars more, despite making record profits! Here is a toolkit to help you with talking points to create your comment, and all the information you need to submit it.
–> Ongoing Hybrid Opportunities
- Join the Constituent Advocacy Project!
The CAP is a statewide effort co-led by 350 Colorado’s Legislative Action Committee to build a strong network of trained, informed constituents who can develop relationships with their legislators and decision-makers to uplift climate urgency, solutions, and policy opportunities. The project helps bridge the gap between grassroots voices and the Colorado General Assembly by equipping people with the tools, confidence, and data to make meaningful connections. Overall, we hope to educate members on the top down dangers of climate change, help facilitate these conversations with their legislators, and foster a network of engaged constituents that together can push for positive change on a legislative level. Join our support session calls biweekly from 6-7pm on Tuesdays!
2. ***Be a Co-Chair for a Committee or Local Team!
We are looking for passionate and motivated people to help lead organizing efforts as Co-Chairs on our:
- Fracking Action Committee
- Promoting Climate Solutions Committee
- 350 Metro Denver Local Team
- 350 Northern Colorado Local Team
- 350 Colorado Springs Local Team
- 350 Roaring Fork Local Team
Co-chairs work closely with staff and other volunteers to help develop meeting agendas and co-lead meetings each month, support new people that join, develop messaging for effective engagement, and support various actions. No specific experience needed, no minimum age required! The time requirement is 3 months of service for about ~5 hours a month with opportunities to renew.
Ready to get started? Email volunteer@350colorado.org
3. ***Become a Leadership Council member on your local team!
The Colorado Springs, Boulder, Roaring Fork, and Northern Colorado teams are looking for a handful of members to join their Leadership Councils. LCs are the people that work closely with other organizers in their area, and the Team Coordinator, to win local campaigns, grow the climate movement, and create more resilient, empowered communities. Apply here today!
- No specific experience needed, no minimum age required – we’ll provide a short onboarding training and support in getting started!
- General tasks include light event planning, campaign management, strategic planning, and some fundraising
- ~5 hours a month preferred
Questions? Email volunteer@350colorado.org
–> Online Actions
- Remind your legislators to take action on Climate and hold polluters accountable!
Share the report with your network so more people know the true costs of climate inaction.
Share the report on social media: Facebook, Instagram, BlueSky, Twitter/X
Write a letter to the editor of your local newspaper about CO Climate Disasters Awareness Week and the new CFI report and urge your leaders to take action! (Please let us know if it’s printed and we’ll uplift it on social media!)
- Come to the Welcome Call for New Volunteers!
When: Register using the link below and we’ll find a time that works best for you!
Where: on Zoom
What: Welcome to everyone! Register here and we will send the Zoom link and information for the call via email. The password to join is “350”. For anyone who is interested in learning more about volunteer opportunities and campaigns, being supported in first steps in your activism, having questions answered, or looking to make connections with others, this is a great and casual call to join! Questions? Email volunteer@350colorado.org
- Subscribe to the What the Frack? Substack and new podcast series here!
Listen to podcasts episodes, read in depth blogs, and learn more about fracking issues and impacts in Colorado.
- Sign the Petition to demand
The “Stop Climate Shakedowns Act of 2026” is beyond dangerous. The oil and gas industry has knowingly fueled our ongoing climate crisis for decades. In order for communities, across the country and here in Colorado, to hold them accountable, we need to prevent Big Oil’ allies in Congress from giving the industry a “get-out-of-jail-free” card. Together, we can stand up for our neighbors and our climate and make greedy polluters pay. Join us in telling congress that they must defend our right to hold the oil and gas industry accountable by signing the No Immunity for Big Oil Petition today.
- Demand that Governor Polis and the Energy and Carbon Management Commission (ECMC) enforce the Chemical Disclosure Law and protect Colorado communities!
Despite a hard-fought legislative victory in 2022 requiring full disclosure of chemicals used in oil and gas operations in Colorado, including fracking and other down-hole activities, a new report released on March 20, 2025 reveals a massive failure by oil & gas corporations to comply and failure by the ECMC to enforce the law. Read more here.
–> Customize your letter here! Say it loud and proud “Governor Polis, hold the ECMC accountable, demand full compliance from the oil & gas operators, and put protecting Colorado’s people and environment before corporate profits!”
- Send a message to your legislators and Governor Polis – It’s Time to Rein in New Oil & Gas Fracking Permits!
Let’s keep calling on our state leaders for meaningful action, because Colorado is not on track to meet our climate, air quality or environmental justice goals. We need a rapid, just transition off fossil fuels to a clean energy future and to end permitting for new oil and gas wells, because drilling and fracking are causing major harm to our health, climate, air, and water resources.
Asking them to sign this open letter supporting a phase out of permitting for oil and gas wells by 2030 and a just transition to a clean renewable energy future and to speak out against more fracking permits in our local communities will help shift the status quo!
–> Send message to legislators and Governor Polis!
- Write a Letter to the Editor (LTE) or OpEd about the fact that many oil and gas wells do not generate enough money to plug their wells.
From the Colorado Sun: “Profitable oil and gas production in Colorado is increasingly concentrated in a few basins leaving the rest of the operations with few resources and posing risk to getting all 47,000 of the state’s active wells plugged and remediated, according to a report from Carbon Tracker.
At least 27,000 wells — more than half the state tally — don’t generate enough cash to pay for their eventual plugging and site remediation, the report by the nonprofit think tank focused on climate and finance.”
This leaves taxpayers holding the bag for oil and gas well cleanup. Not to mention the pollution and habitat destruction created by these wells!
Everything you need:
–> More Online Actions!
- Sign the Open Letter of Support to Phase-out New Oil & Gas Permits! Oil & Gas fracking is the #1 source of climate pollution and ozone air pollution in Colorado. To meet Colorado’s environmental justice and climate goals, we must phase out new fracking and support a fast and fair transition to a renewable energy economy. Sign the Open Letter to join the movement lead by the Safe & Healthy Colorado Coalition!
- Watch and share this video on social media to learn how oil and gas fracking is fueling the flames for more intense wildfires in Colorado
- Sign this petition by GreenLatinos asking Weld County to stop line 1 and put community health and safety over a pipeline expansion project
- We are excited to announce a new toolkit completed in partnership with Boulder County, titled From Dollars to Decarbonization: A Local Government Blueprint for Fossil Free Finance. This toolkit is a resource for local governments to decarbonize their finances in four key areas: Pensions, Insurance, Banking, and Fossil Fuel Divestment. We’re looking for constituents to reach out to their city and county governments to share this toolkit, and to support their governments in taking the steps outlined in this toolkit. We’re happy to give presentations and offer consultation to governments that are interested in taking these steps!
- Sign the Fossil Free CU Petition Here and the Divest CSU Petition here to support local university divestment work! New to divestment & defunding climate disaster? Learn more about how critical divestment work is in the context of the climate crisis.
*Interested in meeting 1-1 with a 350CO staff member to discuss opportunities? Check out our schedulers below and grab 30 minutes:
- Matt Gose, Promoting Climate Solutions Coordinator – scheduler here
- Brigit Stattelman-Scanlan, Development Director – scheduler here
- Heidi Leathwood, Climate Policy Analyst – scheduler here